Because she so devoutly hoped it, Kate made that arrangement with the Trustee.

Monday, she lay half starved, yet gagging and ill, while George went to teach her school.

As she contemplated that, she grew sicker than she had been before.

When she suddenly marshalled all the facts she knew of him, she stoutly refused to think of what Nancy Ellen had said; when she reviewed his character and disposition, and thought of him taking charge of the minds of her pupils, Kate suddenly felt she must not allow that to happen, she must not! Then came another thought, even more personal and terrible, a thought so disconcerting she mercifully lost consciousness again.
She sent for the village doctor, and found no consolation from her talk with him.

She was out of the school; that was settled.